McMinnville resident and DeKalb County native, J.B. Gribble, 87, was born Dec. 11, 1924 and died June 10 at his residence following a brief illness. A retired butcher for the Kroger Company and Cooper & Martin, owner of Gribble’s Processing Plant, a United States Army Air Corp veteran of World War II, and a member of Bybee Branch Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Dewey and Sertie Ray Gribble. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Eugene Gribble.